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" To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. "

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" It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. "

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" This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. "

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" The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. "

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" I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. "

" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "

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